#hand-drawn
A cross-section of the catalog tagged hand-drawn — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Anime & Manga 8
- Illustration 6
- Comic & Graphic 3
- Era Aesthetics 1
- Photography 1
- Mixed Media & Experimental 1
- Painting 1
Styles tagged #hand-drawn
21 styles
1960s Psychedelic
Psychedelic poster art is the visual language of San Francisco between 1965 and 1969 — the city's rock dance halls, concert promoters, an…
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90s Anime Cel Look
Between roughly 1989 and 2001, almost all Japanese anime was animated on physical celluloid sheets and shot on 35mm film before being bro…
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Botanical Scientific Illustration
Botanical scientific illustration is the four-century discipline of rendering a plant accurately enough to identify the species while mak…
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Chibi / Super-Deformed
Chibi (literally "short" in Japanese) and its near-synonym SD ("super-deformed") describe a stylistic mode where characters from a host a…
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Children's Book Watercolor
"Children's book watercolor" is not one style — it is a continuous tradition stretching back over a century of picture-book illustration…
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Cyanotype
The cyanotype process was invented in 1842 and was used almost immediately to produce one of the first photographically illustrated books…
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Crosshatched Gothic
A distinctive body of small illustrated books from the mid-20th century, each one set in a faintly Edwardian elsewhere and rendered in ob…
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Ligne Claire
Ligne claire ("clear line") is the Franco-Belgian comic style codified by classic mid-20th-century adventure comics. It is the foundation…
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Soft Slice-of-Life Anime
A specific contemporary anime aesthetic defines a body of mature slice-of-life TV animation distinct from both painterly studio-fantasy a…
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Storybook Crosshatch
A mature mid-20th-century picture-book illustration style built on dense pen-and-ink crosshatching laid down before color. The technique…
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Mixed Photography and Sketch
Mixed photography and sketch is the deliberate combination of photographic imagery with hand-drawn ink, graphite, watercolor, or marker o…
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European Bande Dessinée
European Bande Dessinée style is one of the most influential strands of 20th-century comics art. Originating in French science-fiction co…
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Editorial Ink Cartoon
American literary-magazine editorial illustration and cartooning has run in a coherent visual language for nearly a century. The style is…
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Loose Ink Line
A loose, energetic style of ink illustration that became the visual face of half a century of children's literature in English. The techn…
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Dark Fantasy Seinen Manga
Seinen ("young man") manga is the Japanese comics category aimed at adult male readers, published across a range of adult-oriented manga…
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Shōjo Manga
Shōjo ("young woman") manga is the Japanese comics category aimed at teenage girls. The category formed around a handful of long-running…
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Hand-Painted Anime
This influential lineage of Japanese animated feature films shares a visual identity that has held remarkably steady across four decades…
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Sumi-e Ink Wash
Sumi-e ("ink picture") is the Japanese name for ink-wash painting introduced from China by Zen Buddhist monks in the 14th century. The pr…
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Raw Modern Manga
This influential contemporary mangaka's work is among the most discussed in the world. A string of dark action series and standalone one-…
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High-Energy Cel Anime
A wave of high-energy, line-driven action animation carried forward an earlier studio's tradition into a new generation of TV and streami…
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Underground Comix
Underground comix (the "x" spelling is original to the movement, used to distinguish from mainstream Comics Code-approved comic books) em…
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